Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 8

“We will kill that one first,” said Caevo’g.

Who acts: We, Caevo’g · What happens: kill, say · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Caevo’g), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 kill	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 kill	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Caevo’g	Caevo'g	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	future	We	that one				first property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Caevo’g						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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